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tcerafice's review against another edition
4.0
recommended by my teacher high key a great read. tried to capture this idea in my research paper but failed. his idea about the aura of art and how that is lost when we mechanically reproduce art is amazing.
chiaracerniglia's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
itsgiuliabtw's review against another edition
4.0
Una lettura breve ma importante. Degna di nota “il produttore malinconico” di Massimo Cacciari, ricca di informazioni che permettono una fruizione migliore del testo di Benjamin.
mirivii's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
2.75
The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
Then proceeds, for 50 pages, to drag moving pictures through the mud.
Such dated stands on cinema are very interesting to read nowadays. There is a bit where W.B. sees the painter doing a cohesive work of art that gas to be taken in its entirety, while the cameraworker chops and puts it back together. This whole vision falls completely with one-take movies.
Is this what we are doing with AI at the moment, failing to see the potential and only focusing on the degenerative part?
Such dated stands on cinema are very interesting to read nowadays. There is a bit where W.B. sees the painter doing a cohesive work of art that gas to be taken in its entirety, while the cameraworker chops and puts it back together. This whole vision falls completely with one-take movies.
Is this what we are doing with AI at the moment, failing to see the potential and only focusing on the degenerative part?
brandonychoi's review against another edition
5.0
Fundamentally altered the way in which I view/digest art.
Favorite lines:
"The audience empathizes with the performer only by empathizing with the camera. It thus assumes the camera's stance: it tests."
"The kind of reception in a state of distraction...is symptomatic of profound changes in apperception has its true practice instrument in film...Film pushes back cult value only by persuading the audience to adopt an appraising stance but also by ensuring that this appraising stance in the cinema does not include attentiveness. The audience is an examiner, but a distracted one."
Favorite lines:
"The audience empathizes with the performer only by empathizing with the camera. It thus assumes the camera's stance: it tests."
"The kind of reception in a state of distraction...is symptomatic of profound changes in apperception has its true practice instrument in film...Film pushes back cult value only by persuading the audience to adopt an appraising stance but also by ensuring that this appraising stance in the cinema does not include attentiveness. The audience is an examiner, but a distracted one."